Hard drive recorder for under £200 (Tech Digest - Sep
29, 2003)
Watch out Sky! Korean company Humax - best known in mainland
Europe for its satellite TV equipment - is gunning for the
UK consumer electronics market with a raft of interesting
new products, including a sub £200 Personal Video Recorder
(PVR).
Available from October, the PVR-8000T will combine a Freeview
(digital terrestrial) box with a 40Gb hard drive. Up to 20
hours of programmes can be recorded onto the drive but the
Electronic Programme Guide - like the one for the similar,
but more expensive, Pace Twin model - only offers now and
next programming information at present. Also the model is
a single tuner unit so it's not possible to record two programmes
at the same time (Sky+ has this facility though it hasn't
been switched on yet!)
However, Humax does plans a twin tuner model (the PVR-9000T)
for the first quarter of 2004. This will have an 80Gb hard
drive (twice the size of the current Sky+ hard drive) and
a JPEG function for storing images from your digital camera.
Other functions include Picture in Picture and single-stream
scene search. The price of the product has yet to be confirmed.
Other products that Humax has announced:
Two Digital terrestrial set-top boxes - Available now, the
F2-1001T (nicknamed The Mouse) costs ·Ì60 while the F2-FOX
T will set you back around ·Ì100. Both are designed to receive
Freeview's 30 or so channels. The FOX T comes with four games
and a digital audio output.
Digital terrestrial (Freeview) box with DVD player - Offering
MP3/DVD+R/RW playback, the DV-1000T will go on sale in October.
The price has yet to be confirmed.
IDTVs - 17 and 30inch LCD screens with built in digital terrestrial
tuners are planned for next year.
Digital AV receiver - The AVE-750 is a 7.1 channel receiver
compatible with the latest surround sound formats (including
Dolby Digital EX6.1 and DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete and Matrix).
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